Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/72556 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4211
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country’s comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the rest of society through government employment in order to quell social unrest. But under an SAP, the elite are constrained from making such transfers and consequently social unrest may arise. The paper proposes a framework from which a prediction can be made about the circumstances under which social unrest can be expected to occur. It then takes this prediction to the data and finds empirical support for it.
Subjects: 
institutions
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
social unrest
structural adjustment
trade integration
JEL: 
D30
D74
F10
O12
P14
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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